Imagine a flag almost the size of a tennis court, waving in the hands of at least 60 people, who march past Logan Square, along Benjamin Franklin Parkway, making their way to a stage at the Oval. It's big.
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President Donald Trump on Monday declared himself an "absolute no" on statehood for Puerto Rico as long as critics such as San Juan's mayor remain in office, the latest broadside in his feud with members of the U.S. territory's leadership. Trump lobbed fresh broadsides at San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz, a critic of his administration's response to hurricanes on the island last year, during a radio interview with Fox News' Geraldo Rivera that aired Monday.
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Nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees living in hotels across the U.S. are awaiting a federal judge's decision on their next home. U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Massachusetts heard plaintiff representatives and government attorneys Monday at a phone hearing.
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A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm. Saturday night's decision came shortly after civil rights group LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a lawsuit seeking relief for the Puerto Ricans, whose federal housing assistance vouchers were set to expire at midnight Sunday, meaning the evacuees could have been evicted from the hotels.
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Puerto Rico is making its biggest push for statehood in years, filing legislation in Congress that would make the island the 51st state by 2021. Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón, a Republican, filed a bill on Wednesday that would pave the way for the island to become a state no later than January 2021.
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Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, spiraling the island into a cycle of endless devastation overnight. Even today, my homeland is still suffering the effects of the catastrophic cyclone's furious winds and rains.
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Charito Morales, right, speaks as part of a group of activists advocating for Puerto Rican families who came to Philadelphia following Hurricane Maria protest in front of FEMA's Philadelphia office in Philadelphia, PA on April 18, 2018. DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer An activist who has been helping Puerto Ricans get back on their feet following Hurricane Maria had a message Wednesday for islanders considering Philadelphia: Don't come here.
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Charito Morales, right, speaks as part of a group of activists advocating for Puerto Rican families who came to Philadelphia following Hurricane Maria protest in front of FEMA's Philadelphia office in Philadelphia, PA on April 18, 2018. DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer An activist who has been helping Puerto Ricans get back on their feet following Hurricane Maria had a message Wednesday for islanders considering Philadelphia: Don't come here.
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Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Governor of Puerto Rico, greets attendees after participating in a forum question and answer session at Esperanza College, in Philadelphia on Feb. 16. "The island endures." That's the quick pick-up from analysts Alexander Twerdahl, Alexander Goldfarb and Daniel Santos, of New York investment bank Sander O'Neill + Partners, after visiting bankers, landlords, and businesspeople in Puerto Rico, six months after Hurricane Maria wrecked services, shut factories , and left thousands dependent on emergency shelter or relatives on the U.S. mainland.
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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló urged Philadelphia faith and civic leaders on Friday to put their political power behind relief efforts for the hurricane-ravaged island and to discuss help for evacuees who have come to Pennsylvania. It has been more than five months since Category 4 Hurricane Maria devastated the island, and thousands of families have sought shelter on the U.S. mainland.
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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossell urged Philadelphia faith and civic leaders on Friday to put their political power behind relief efforts for the hurricane-ravaged island and to discuss help for evacuees who have come to Pennsylvania. It has been more than five months since Category 4 Hurricane Maria devastated the island, and thousands of families have sought shelter on the U.S. mainland.
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Puerto Rican evacuees demonstrate outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building on Monday, Feb. 12, and call for an indefinite extension of FEMA aid to victims displaced by Hurricane Maria. JOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer Since Puerto Rican evacuees started arriving in Philadelphia last fall following Hurricane Maria, the Philadelphia Housing Authority has had the ability to house up to 50 of them and move even more people to the top of the public housing wait list.
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Asaf, 9 and Raul Berrios, 64, live in South Philadelphia now after leaving Carolina, Puerto Rico, Thursday November 9, 2017. DAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer In the six weeks since, he moved from Florida, where his temporary work and housing dried up, to New Jersey, where he slept on a cousin's living-room floor, and to Philadelphia, where his sole relative here took him in.
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Puerto Rico has suffered such extensive devastation from Hurricane Maria that its recovery will fail unless the island gets more help from the Trump administration and Congress, the head of a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances said Tuesday. Natalie Jaresko, executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, told Congress that the U.S. territory needs emergency and restoration funds "on an unprecedented scale" to restore housing, water and electric power.
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As she drove the mountain road leading to her relatives' home, slowing to avoid craters where the street had collapsed, Quetcy Lozada went quiet. For two weeks, in crushing humidity, she had walked streets lined with wrecked homes, yelling out that her team had food and water.
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